Samsung Unites Bada & Tizen Mobile OS

Posted by
Sam Churchill
on
January 16th, 2012

Samsung says it is in the process of integrating its existing feature phone OS, Bada, with Tizen, the software project Samsung and Intel are developing. It is partly based on MeeGo, the OS that Intel and Nokia were pursuing before Nokia teamed up with Microsoft Windows Mobile.

According to an interview in Forbes, when the integration work is complete, developers’ bada applications will be supported in Tizen, and apps written for Tizen will still be able to work on bada devices.

Tae-Jin Kang, SVP of Samsung’s contents planning team, tells Forbes that Tizen will not become its main operating platform “anytime soon.”

It could, however, replace bada. It would also give the company greater control, something that it does not have with Android, which is open-source but effectively developed and run by Google.